Kubernetes Job Trends in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 57 63
Rank change year-on-year -36 +6 +14
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 5 50 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.30% 4.02% 2.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.68% 56.82% 23.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3 26 15
10th Percentile - £43,750 £35,800
25th Percentile £67,500 £47,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -16.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £75,625 £72,000
South East median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 88 88 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 5.26% 7.07% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 63 50 79
10th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £42,813 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Surrey

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leatherhead -1 2 - - 1
Staines -1 2 £70,000 -6.67%
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (40.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (40.00%) Loki
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (40.00%) Load Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Deadline-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Argo